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Guantánamo detainees in their sixth month of hunger strike are being force-fed
in the middle of the night and stripped of basic comforts as US authorities
attempt to end the protest, one of the men held there has claimed.

As President Obama steps up efforts to close the Cuban camp, Samir Moqbel, a
Yemeni man who has been held there for 11 years, spoke of his failing
resolve as the numbers of hunger strikers have dwindled during Ramadan.

As the month of Muslim fasting ends tomorrow, it has emerged that some hunger
strikers have agreed to take small amounts of